| OASTHOUSE | You once slipped into a vessel in Old English kiln's environment |
| MELBOURNE | Victorian singer not finished with vessel in old European capital (9) |
| INKWELLS | Writing-fluid vessels in old desks |
| STAND | A company of plovers; a grove of trees; a platform for a brass band; or, a vessel in a boot room or hall for umbrella's, shooting sticks, crops etc (5) |
| TYLOSES | An ingrowth from a neighbouring cell through a pit into a vessel (7) |
| TIN | Metal once mined in Cornwall or Devon; or, a vessel in which a cake or a loaf of bread is baked (3) |
| BOBCAT | Links, you might say, put many years long ago into a vessel (6) |
| CANOE | Stick a duck into a vessel! (5) |
| SAMPLES | Tries to get a little too much into a vessel? (7) |
| SCUTTLE | To make a hole in a vessel in order to sink it (7) |
| DOWNTHE | Indication one's about to shift some alcohol into a vessel, perhaps (4,3,5) |
| ACTUP | Tons loaded into a vessel cause trouble |
| SHOWS | Demonstrates how to get into a vessel (5) |
| SLAVES | Workers putting minced veal into a vessel |
| SENDS | Tip into a vessel one dispatches (5) |
| SALES | Business of putting beer into a vessel (5) |
| DECKS | Floor-like platforms built into a vessel (5) |
| BREAKER | The great wave goes right into a vessel! (7) |
| FELLOWSHIP | Mate on a vessel in a friendly state (10) |
| VALUELESS | Lutetium, transported in a vessel in compound form, is unusable (9) |